Heidenreich Reflects On Run With Animal in Legion of Doom

Heidenreich had a run with Road Warrior Animal in the Legion Of Doom at the end of his WWE run, something he recently reflected on. Heidenreich and Animal won the WWE Tag Team Championships in 2005 and had a run with them that involved Heidenreich being made a member of the legendary team. They held the titles for 94 days before losing them at the 2005 Great American Bash to Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro.

Heidenreich reflected on that time in his appearance on Insight With Chris Van Vliet. He recalled how his face paint evolved in the look and said Triple H was responsible for his skull face paint. You can see highlights below

On How He Got Teamed With Animal:

“Well, I remember that they came and told me about it, and then we started that progression of me doing the hair, and then I think the spikes or the face paint, I’m not sure how it went on, but I was progressing with Animal. But my first paint job was the butterfly effect, which Animal came up with, which I don’t think they like too much. But the skull thing was actually given to me by Triple H. He got me and asked me to come into the back room. So I go into this locker room and he sits there, it’s bizarre. He’s putting that skull on my face in real time.”

On Triple H Painting the Skull Face On:

“It was his idea. But he puts it on me, and he tells me to look at it, it’s cool, that skull face. But then we had to go ask the Undertaker, because he had those things on his tights at the time, or his pants, that was a skull-type deal, and he approved it. He said it’s okay, I like it. I went with that, which I thought that paint job was way better. I got the spikes. But that was surreal, because in college, we were LOD fans, or marks. I guess it’s okay to say mark, I don’t mean anything bad by it.

“But I had photos of me and the guy I played college ball with at Mardi Gras, we made up our homemade LOD spikes and painted our faces, and it was Mardi Gras day. We went out dressed up like that, and I had pictures, so I brought one to Animal, this is no bullsh*t, man. We were LOD, we wanted to be LOD. But now I’m in LOD, so that was huge.”